Diana Butler Bass, a scholar specializing in American religion and culture, will present the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Grace United Methodist Church.

Diana Butler Bass, a scholar specializing in American religion and culture, will present the annual Morningside College Wright Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Grace United Methodist Church, 1735 Morningside Ave.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Butler Bass has written nine books, including her latest book, “Grounded: Finding God in the World – A Spiritual Revolution,” which will provide the basis for her talk.  She writes for The Huffington Post and The Washington Post and comments on religion, politics and culture for USA Today, Time, CBS, CNN, FOX, PBS and NPR.

From 2002 to 2006, she was the project director of a national Lilly Endowment-funded study of mainline Protestant vitality—a project featured in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and the Los Angeles Times.

Butler Bass has taught at Westmont College, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Macalester College, Rhodes College and the Virginia Theological Seminary in subjects ranging from church history, American religious history, and history of Christian thought to religion and politics, religion and race and congregational studies.

She has a Ph.D. in religious studies from Duke University.